[ubuntu-uk] Acer Laptop

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 2/7/07, Celia Lawton-Livingstone <lawli56 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in putting Ubuntu 6.10 on my Acer laptop, probably as a dual
> boot to begin with.  How do I find out whether the hardware is compatible
> and will i need to download a program to control power management?

That's easy. Just put the Ubuntu CD in and reboot. It'll run a bit
slower off the CD, but you can check that everything is working that
way before installing (or modifying the hard disk in any way). One
sometimes troublesome area is wireless network. Report back, or to the
ubuntu-users list, if something doesn't work right away. Workarounds
are usually possible.

-Eamonn